The Press: Fixit Goes West

James G. Bellows is known among his friends these days as "the Red Adair
of journalism," a Mr. Fixit summoned to patch up ailing newspapers, or
at least light up their declining days. As the last editor of the New
York Herald Tribune, Bellows breathed temporary vitality into that
doomed daily. As most recent editor of the Washington Star, he turned a
newsprint morgue into a laboratory of editorial innovation. But
Bellows, 55, has never faced a task as daunting as this: on Jan. 1 he
will become editor of what may well...